Earlier this summer we told you about a new Google acquisition: Skybox Imaging Company, specializing in satellite imaging . In the short term, Google hoped the service would help to improve its services Google Maps and Google Earth, while in a future period may improve attention and help in natural disasters. It appears that progress is being made in that direction, as the company announced on its blog officiating l will offer its high-resolution images for free to various charities .
With Skybox for Good, name given to the program, the aim of Skybox Imaging is contributing their images to projects that can help save lives, protect the environment, promote education and, ultimately, anything that demonstrates impact positively on humanity . For now, this program is in beta, so the company will select a small number of organizations that will receive access to images taken by satellites of the company, which will be offered under Creative Commons.Furthermore, Skybox will capture new images of certain places to get a more recent view, if necessary. Skybox for Good has already started collecting pictures of new places, and in the forests of West Virginia, where he wants to study how it is affecting a mining project to the clearing of forests.
